The combination of power, optimism and abstract thinking makes powerful people more certain. The more cut-off they are from others, the more confident they are that they are right.
according to the psychologist irving Janis, is that our sense of belonging (which makes us feel safe) blinds us to dangers and encourages greater risk-taking.
Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It's capable of generating an enormous number of phenomena, some of them very obvious and some of them less obvious. But I think that in the end there are going to be some very basic explanatio...
Here was someone who had dismissed most of what I had just been saying as too obvious to even discuss; yet apparently it wasn't obvious enough. I realized that he was the living embodiment of one of the greatest paradoxes of human behavior: Common se...
it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual aristocracies; it has all the oligarchical virtues as well as all the defects. It is casual, it is kind, it is courageous in obvious matters; ...
The great discoveries are usually obvious.
In art, the obvious is a sin.
money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself
Harry: 'Come seek us where our voices sound'. Hermione: The Black Lake, that's obvious. Harry: 'An hour long you'll have to look'. Hermione: Again, obvious. Though admittedly potentially problematic... Harry: Potentially problematic? When was the las...
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
A brick could be used as a doorstop. But that’s obvious. What isn’t obvious is why somebody would want to stop a door, since doors represent openness. What is that person hiding behind that door that they want to stop people from opening it up? I...
It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.
I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.
What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.
Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.
Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.
Never assume the obvious is true.
Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.
The belief that every living thing has an individual soul is called animism. (Anima, which means 'soul,' is also the root of the word 'animal.') Anthropologists have found this belief to be universal in children, though the children themselves don't ...
We didn’t deny the obvious, but we didn’t entirely accept it either. I mean, we said hello to it each morning in the foyer. We patted its little head as it made a mess in the backyard, but we never nurtured it. Many nights the obvious showed up a...
I'm human. Isn't it obvious?
